Every month, JBJS publishes a Specialty Update—a review of the most pertinent and impactful studies published in the orthopaedic literature during the previous year in 13 subspecialties. Click here for a collection of all OrthoBuzz Specialty Update summaries.

This month, OrthoBuzz asked Theodore Choma, MD and Darrel Brodke, MD, co-authors of the June 15, 2016 Specialty Updateon spine surgery, to select the five most clinically compelling findings from among the more than 40 studies they cited.